PT 55/1986


Just found this article from Baseline 7, 1986.
It describes the making of PT 55, the typeface
which later became FF Meta.

Habe gerade diesen Artkel gefunden in Baseline 7 von 1986.
Er schildert die Entstehung der PT 55, jener Schrift,
die später zur FF Meta wurde.


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MetaHeadline


FF Meta’s lively shapes make it look good in small sizes and certainly give it character. Often too much so for headlines. Enter MetaHeadline: three widths with four weights each. For extra tight setting, some characters have alternative shapes.



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The sincerest form of flattery? | Ist Nachahmung das beste Kompliment?


It’s flattering to know that some of my typefaces have influenced other designers. Except...
Schön zu wissen, dass einige meiner Schriftentwürfe andere Gestalter inspiriert haben. Allerdings...

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Mi - April 27, 2005

Futura - the perfect geometric typeface?


I have often found that supposedly perfect typefaces turn out to be less so on close inspection. Consider these examples for Futura: the version from Adobe (top in both examples) is clearly badly digitized. Early days, they were still learning -- it's not about blaming anybody, but about getting our client -- Volkswagen -- a decent typeface. If Futura's O is supposed to look like a perfect circle, why does it look like an egg? And look at the counters in a, g, and e! Those are also supposed to be circular, not egg-shaped. So we took the typeface apart and reassembled it. If your VW had egg-shaped wheels, wouldn't you complain? Or excuse it as an expression of the designer's creativity?


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Mo - Januar 24, 2005

type specimens | schriftproben


Back in the 80s, foundries spent a lot of money printing specimen booklets. I recently found some of the brochures we designed back then.
In den 80er Jahren gaben die Schriftgießereien viel Geld aus für Schriftproben. Mir sind neulich einige der Broschüren in die Hände gefallen, die wir damals entworfen haben.


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typefaces | schriften


I am often asked about my typefaces. It isn’t easy for everybody to get full showings for them all, so i’ll try and provide PDFs for all of them. It’ll take a while, but here’s a start.
Ich habe viele Anfragen wegen meiner Schriften. Es ist anscheinend nicht für jeden einfach, Figurenverzeichnisse zu bekommen. Ich will also versuchen, nach und nach PDFs für alle zur Verfügung zu stellen. Wird ein wenig dauern, aber ein Anfang ist gemacht.

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my favourite typefaces


Here's my list of favourite typefaces. Not the ones I use most, but the ones I love because they have influenced me or because I wish I had designed them.

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Type for a purpose


What makes a good typeface?
Here are some answers.

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Schriftentwerfen


Was ist der erste Gedanke beim Entwerfen einer Schrift?
Ein Interview per Email, 2003.

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ITC Officina


ITC Officina Display and where it comes from:
The redesign of The Economist was the reason to take a look at Officina Sans. While that was good as an “information” face, it was too goofy as a headline. Enter the Display version...


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Meta International


Over the last decade more and more Non-Western versions of FF Meta have been designed. If you need to set Baltic languages, Romanian, Turkish, Central European languages, Greek or Cyrillic, you can now get all of these in a package (with their Western cousins) in two basic weights, Book and Bold with their Italics. Go to Read More and see the PDF.

In den letzten zehn Jahren sind etliche Versionen der FF Meta entstanden über die erste, «West»-Fassung hinaus. Wer baltische Sprachen setzen will, Türkisch, Rumänisch, die Mitteleuropäischen Sprachen, Griechisch und Kyrillisch gar, der findet diese alle zusammen jetzt in einem Paket, natürlich einschließlich der «normalen» lateinischen Version. Alles in zwei Schnitten, Book und Bold mit den jeweiligen Kursiven. Ein PDF zeigt alles unter Read More.



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